Cambridge - Boston
Ther [Thermometer] Thursday, Dec. 7, 1916 [December 7, 1916] Wea [Weather]
42 [degrees] Fine

Clear & cool with fresh N.W.[northwest] wind.
No frost in ground or ice in even the
shallowest pools. City lawns continue very
green.

  In Garden. 2 Chickadees, a Peabody bird (ad) [adult]
6 House Sparrows, a Jay & a Downy [Downy Woodpecker] heard.

  Wrote three letters after breakfast & then 
went to Boston, reaching our office at 
11.30 and remaining there most of the time
for next four hours. Talking with Arthur,
Galloupe [Frederic R. Galloupe] & Darling. Also saw Mr. Brown
at 53 Devonshire St. leaving with him a copy
of a new will I desire to have executed, which
he brought, later, to our office & discussed with
me. Lunched at Marston's, called at Thorpe
& Martin's for a 1917 diary & then
returned to Cambridge by a crowded
subway train. Met Arthur Robbins in it
and Dick Dana [Richard Henry Dana] in Devonshire Street.
Home by 5 P.M.

Cambridge
Ther [Thermometer] Friday, Dec. 8, 1916 [December 8, 1916]  Wea [Weather]
Fine

Brilliantly clear and almost windless
the air cool, dry & bracing but not cold
enough for frost, of which there has been
no recent visitation, strange to say.

  In Garden: 3 male Juncos feeding on millet
seed. Downy W. [Downy Woodpecker] heard, Blue Jay flying over.
On lawn: 6 big, glossy black Crows feeding
together on turf, into which they thrust their
bills, also stalking in under a spreading
birch tree where they tossed fallen leaves about
searching under them for food. As we
watched them E.R.S. [Elizabeth R. Simmons] suggested that as
some one once said of Frank Sanborn they
"had an awkward grace of their own".
  A Gray Squirrel kept approaching & making
abrupt rushes at them, to avoid which 
they would rise on wing & fly a few yards.

  Spent most of day in Museum
working on Concord notes. C. [Caroline Brewster] went in
town to St. Pauls but returned in time
for lunch. We had reading aloud &
Victrola music in the evening.